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Rep. Joe Garcia
- Florida
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Party
Democratic
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Current Office
U.S. House
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First Elected
11/6/2012
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Next Election
2014
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Sponsored Bills
Congress 113
2
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CoSponsored Bills
Congress 113
14
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Missed Vote %
3.52%
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Votes with Party
84.52%
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Jose Antonio "Joe" Garcia, Jr. is a Miami-based lawyer and the U.S Representative for Florida's 26th congressional district. The district includes most of western Miami-Dade County, as well as the Florida Keys. He is the former executive director of the Cuban American National Foundation and was nominated by President Barack Obama to be director of the Office of Minority Economic Impact and Diversity of the United States Department of Energy, a position for which he was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate....
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Jose Antonio "Joe" Garcia, Jr. is a Miami-based lawyer and the U.S Representative for Florida's 26th congressional district. The district includes most of western Miami-Dade County, as well as the Florida Keys. He is the former executive director of the Cuban American National Foundation and was nominated by President Barack Obama to be director of the Office of Minority Economic Impact and Diversity of the United States Department of Energy, a position for which he was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate....
Joe Garcia
has co-sponsored bill HR5631
To authorize the Central Everglades Planning Project, Florida, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure....
Joe Garcia
has sponsored bill
HR5596
To provide borrowers of Federal Family Education Loans with the repayment terms available to borrowers of Federal Direct Loans, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce....
Joe Garcia
has co-sponsored bill HR5362
To provide that the Social Security Administration pay fees associated with obtaining birth certificate or State identification card for purposes of obtaining a replacement social security card for certain victims of domestic violence, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means....
Joe Garcia
has co-sponsored bill HR5294
To improve the health of minority individuals, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Agriculture, Education and the Workforce, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, the Judiciary, and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently d...
Joe Garcia
has sponsored bill
HR5219
English Learning and Innovation Act
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce....
Joe Garcia
has co-sponsored bill HR5152
To save the Federal Government money by reducing duplication and increasing efficiency, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Armed Services, Ways and Means, and Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideratio...
Joe Garcia
has co-sponsored bill HR5030
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 13500 SW 250 Street in Princeton, Florida, as the "Corporal Christian A. Guzman Rivera Post Office Building".
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform....
Joe Garcia
has co-sponsored bill HR5009
Military Separation Pay Fairness Act of 2014
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services....
Joe Garcia
has co-sponsored bill HR4929
To establish a grant program for career education in computer science.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce....
Joe Garcia
has co-sponsored bill HR4897
Transparency in Education Act
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce....
Joe Garcia
has sponsored bill
HR4828
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to award grants to establish STEM Innovation Networks.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce....
Joe Garcia
has sponsored bill
HR4613
To authorize the Small Business Administrator to establish a grant program to empower encore entrepreneurs.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business....
Joe Garcia
has sponsored bill
HR4598
To provide the heads of agencies with direct-hire authority to appoint qualified candidates to positions relating to information technology, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform....
Joe Garcia
has co-sponsored bill HR4587
To impose targeted sanctions on individuals responsible for carrying out or ordering human rights abuses against the citizens of Venezuela, and for other purposes.
Current Status
House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent....
Joe Garcia
has co-sponsored bill HR4579
To require the Secretary of Education to verify that individuals have made a commitment to serve in the Armed Forces or in public service, or otherwise are a borrower on an eligible loan which has been submitted to a guaranty agency for default aversion or is already in default, before such individuals obtain a consolidation loan for purposes specified under section 455(o) of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce....
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